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The Wonky Policy That’s Got Hospitals on High Alert

Tradeoffs

04-05-2023 • 20 mins

Medicare could soon pay hospitals much less for common outpatient services like x-rays and checkups.


This week, we explain an old policy gathering new steam in Washington, how it could save Medicare and patients billions of dollars a year, and why it has hospitals worried.


Guests:

Loren Adler, MS, Fellow and Associate Director, USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy

Joe Antos, PhD, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute

Amol Navathe, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Health Policy and Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Hannah Neprash, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota School of Public Health

Ashley Thompson, MHA, Senior Vice President, American Hospital Association


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